"If a lot of radium would be sufficient to make important discoveries".: Vienna as a node in the network of European atomic research centres

• Autores: Silke Fengler
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 804-809
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper depicts Vienna as a node in the network of European atomic research centres in the interwar years.

    On the one hand, it sheds light on the strategy employed by Austrian physicists to maintain a position in the network of European research laboratories, which had been dominated since the early 20th century by the French and British schools. Most notably the lending of radioactive substances to radioactivists at home and abroad will be considered. On the other hand, the paper focuses on the scholars visiting Vienna in the 1920s and early 1930s: Which countries did they come from? What impact did their stay have on the local situation, as well as on their further career abroad? Among the factors influencing scholarly mobility, the role of the International Education Board in promoting Vienna as a research centre of atomic physics is studied in-depth.